I love Japanese design and fabrics. I also love people who make clothes for mass consumption but do it well and cleverly.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

The Truth only offends those who live outside it.

Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?

They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.

I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with fears of the unknown and the unknowable to poison all their joy in life.

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

Come to the woods, for here is rest.

Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor